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Stefan Lessmann

WORLDCOMP'06 Conference Programme

WORLDCOMP'06 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The 2006 International Conference on Data Mining
Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006

Below, you will find the conference schedules for DMIN06 and all other conference part of WORLDCOMP'06. The conference schedules are separated by two rows of stars (*).

Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications and Real-Time Computing Systems & Applications (PDPTA'06 + RTCOMP'06)
Grid Computing & Applications (GCA'06)
Software Engineering Research & Practice (SERP'06)
Programming Languages & Compilers (PLC'06)
Internet Computing (ICOMP'06), Semantic Web & Web Services (SWWS'06),
and Computer Games Development (CGD'06)
Engineering of Reconfigurable Systems & Algorithms (ERSA'06)
Computer Design (CDES'06) and Computing in Nanotechnology (CNAN'06)
Artificial Intelligence (ICAI'06)
Machine Learning; Models, Technologies & Applications (MLMTA'06)
Data Mining (DMIN'06)
Information & Knowledge Engineering (IKE'06)
e-Learning, e-Business, Enterprise Information Systems, e-Government,& Outsourcing (EEE'06)
Bioinformatics & Computational Biology (BIOCOMP'06)
Image Processing, Computer Vision, & Pattern Recognition (IPCV'06)
Modeling, Simulation & Visualization Methods (MSV'06)
Computer Graphics & Virtual Reality (CGVR'06)
Security & Management (SAM'06)
Wireless Networks (ICWN'06)
Communications in Computing (CIC'6)
Embedded Systems & Applications (ESA'06)
Pervasive Systems & Computing (PSC'06)
Scientific Computing (CSC'06)
Frontiers in Education: Computer Science & Computer Engineering (FECS'06)
Foundations of Computer Science (FCS'06)

Note:

Those accepted papers whose authors have informed us that they
would not be able to attend, are not included in this schedule.
If you have already registered and your paper does not appear in
the schedule, then let me know AND also contact Hamid Arabnia
at hra@cs.uga.edu.
If you would like to attend the conference and have not yet
registered, you woud need to do so soon. The registration site is
at: http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/worldcomp06/ws/Registration
If your paper is included in the schedule and you are not going
to be at the conference to present it (neither your co-authors), then
let me know AND also contact Hamid Arabnia at hra@cs.uga.edu.
The web site will be updated within the next 4 days to include
these schedules.

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PDPTA + RTCOMP CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The 2006 International Conference on
Parallel & Distributed Processing Techniques & Applications
and
Real-Time Computing Systems & Applications

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006

Note: There are a number of other sessions (not listed as part of
PDPTA/RTCOMP schedule) that are of significant interest to
PDPTA/RTCOMP conference participants (sessions belonging to
other joint conferences in this event.) Therefore, you are
encouraged to also check the schedules for other joint conferences.
In particular, some sessions in GCA'06, CSC'06, ICOMP'06, SWWS'06,
FECS'06, CDES'06, and BIOCOMP'06, discuss topics that are within
the scope of PDPTA/RTCOMP; these have been scheduled so that
PDPTA/RTCOMP attendees can also participate in them.

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June 25
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03:00 - 09:00pm: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby; 1-5)

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June 26
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6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am: WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

08:45 - 09:45am: Keynote Lecture 1:
Erasing the Digital Divide: Putting Your Best Idea on the
$100 Laptop
Prof. Barry Vercoe
Founding Member of MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am: Keynote Lecture 2:
The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
Dr. Chris Rowen
President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

10:50 - 11:20am: Increasing Diversity and Participation in Advanced Computing
Dr. John R. Boisseau
Director, Texas Advanced Computing Center,
The University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

11:20a - 12:20p: Panel - Performance and Connectivity on the $100 Laptop
Panel Chair: Prof. Barry Vercoe, MIT Media Lab, MIT, USA
Panelists: Jim Gettys* and Michail Bletsas**
*Vice President, Software Engineering, OLPC
**Chief Connectivity Officer, OLPC
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:10pm: Lunch (On Your Own)

01:10 - 01:40pm: DISCUSSION SESSION A-PDPTA (Refreshments will be available)
June 26 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of PDPTA's schedule.

SESSION 1-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with 2-PDPTA)
DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING AND SYSTEMS
Chair: Dr. Tsang-Long Pao* and Xinli Wang**
*Tatung University, Taiwan, R.O.C.
**Colorado State University, USA
June 26, 2006 (Monday); 1:40pm - 5:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

01:40 - 02:00pm: Greedy Approaches to Stochastic Robust Resource Allocation for
Periodic Sensor Driven Distributed Systems
Vladimir Shestak, Jay Smith, Robert Umland, Jennifer Hale,
Patrick Moranville, Anthony A. Maciejewski, and H. J. Siegel
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
IBM, Colorado, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: Realizing Consistent Event Ordering in Distributed Shared Memory
Systems
Tobias Landes and Joerg Preissinger
Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany

02:20 - 02:40pm: Exploiting Roles and Responsibilities to Generate Code in a
Distributed Design-Pattern-Based Programming System
Jun Chen and Steve MacDonald
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

02:40 - 03:00pm: Dynamic Resource Allocation Heuristics for Maximizing Robustness
with an Overall Makespan Constraint in an Uncertain Environment
Ashish M. Mehta, Jay Smith, H. J. Siegel, Anthony A. Maciejewski,
Arun Jayaseelan, and Bin Ye
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
IBM 6300 Diagonal Highway Boulder, USA

03:00 - 03:20pm: BREAK

03:20 - 03:40pm: Dynamic Vector Clocks for Consistent Ordering of Events in
Dynamic Distributed Applications
Tobias Landes
Technische Universitat Munchen, Germany

03:40 - 04:00pm: Mono versus .net: A Comparative Study of Performance for
Distributed Processing
Gregory J Blajian, Roger Eggen, Maurice Eggen, and Gerald Pitts
University of North Florida, Florida, USA
Trinity University, Texas, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm: Remaining Capacity Based Load Balancing Architecture for Heterogeneous
Web Server System
Tsang-Long Pao and Jian-Bo Chen
Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C

04:20 - 04:40pm: A Result Propagation Scheme for Redundant Multithreaded Systems
Bernhard Fechner
FernUniversitat in Hagen, Germany

04:40 - 05:00pm: A Proposal of Internet Worm Detection Using ICMP
Yoshimasa Sajima, Hiroshi Ishii, and Hiroaki Nishikawa
Tokai University, Japan
University of Tsukuba, Japan

05:00 - 05:20pm: FREE SLOT

SESSION 2-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with 1-PDPTA)
MATHEMATICAL MODELING AND PROBLEM SOLVING
Chairs: Prof. Mario Nakamori and Prof. Kazuki Joe; Japan
June 26, 2006 (Monday); 1:40pm - 07:20pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room A)

01:40 - 02:00pm: Discrimination of Lung Sounds Using a Statistics of Waveform Intervals
T. Orihashi, H. Shouno, and S. Kido
Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan

02:00 - 02:20pm: A Grey-Based Approach to Suppliers Selection Problem
G.-D. Li, D.Yamaguchi, and M. Nagai
Teikyo University, Utsunomiya City, Japan

02:20 - 02:40pm: Extraction for Frequent Sequential Patterns with Minimum
Varaible-Wildcard Regions
T. Kato, H. Kitakami, M. Takaki, K. Tamura, Y. Mori, and S. Kuroki
Hiroshima City University, Hiroshima, Japan

02:40 - 03:00pm: Evaluation of a New Eigen Decomposition Algorithm for Symmetric
Tridiagonal Matrices
H. Tsuboi, T. Konda, M. Takata, M. Iwasaki, and Y. Nakamura
Kyoto University, Yoshida-Honmachi, Kyoto, Japan

03:00 - 03:20pm: An Approach to Reasoning in an Artificial Chemistry
Kazuto Tominaga
Tokyo University of Technology, Tokyo, Japan

03:20 - 03:40pm: BREAK

03:40 - 04:00pm: Simulation of Traffic Flow Through Bottleneck
H. Shimizu, T. Tamaki, and E. Kita
Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan

04:00 - 04:20pm: Design of an Integrated Database System for Short-Term Earthquake
Prediction
C. Ishikawa, H. Kamo, N. Nide, and K. Joe
Nara Women's University, Japan

04:20 - 04:40pm: Gatau: A 3D Visualization System for Intuitive Analysis of
Atmospheric Science
E. Touma, K. Yamauchi, H. Kamo, N. Nide, S. Hayashida, and K. Joe
Nara Women's University, Japan

04:40 - 05:00pm: Design and Implementation of Gatau API for HDF-EOS
K. Yamauchi, E. Touma, H. Kamo, N. Nide, S. Hayashida,
and K. Joe
Nara Women's University, Japan

05:00 - 05:20pm: Another RSS Reader with Visualization of Structured Documents
and Effective Navigation
S. Hara, H. Kamo, N. Nide, and K. Joe
Nara Women's University, Japan

05:20 - 05:40pm: Verification of dLVv Transformation for Singular Vector
Computation with High Accuracy
M. Takata, K. Kimura, and Y. Nakamura
Kyoto University, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

05:40 - 06:00pm: Preliminary Result of Parallel Double Divide and Conquer
T. Konda, H. Tsuboi, M. Takata, M. Iwasaki and Y. Nakamura
Kyoto University, Yoshida Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan

06:00 - 06:20pm: Dynamic Load Balancing Technique for Modified PrefixSpan
on a Grid Environment with Distributed Worker Model
M. Takaki, K. Tamura, and H. Kitakami
Hiroshima City University, Asa-Minami-Ku, Hiroshima, Japan

06:20 - 06:40pm: Implementation of PC Cluster System with Menory Mapped
File by Commodity OS
J. Kanai, T. Mori, T, Araki, N. Tanabe, H. Nakajo, and M. Namiki
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

06:40 - 07:00pm: Implementable Models of SMT Processor into FPGA
I. Tate, Y. Ogasawara, M. Sato, K. Sasada, K. Uchikura,
K. Asano, S. Watanabe, M. Namiki, and H. Nakajo
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

07:00 - 07:20pm: Towards Reconfigurable Cache Memory for a Multithreaded Processor
Y. Ogasawara, I. Tate, S. Watanabe, M. Sato, K. Sasada,
K. Uchikura, K. Asano, M. Namiki, and H. Nakajo
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
Dr. H. Keith Edwards
University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
Dr. M. Deriche
KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)

09:00 - 11:00pm: CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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June 27
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6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 3-PDPTA: TOOLS + FRAMEWORKS + MONITORING SYSTEMS + PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS +
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
Chairs: Dr. Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 08:20am - 02:40pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

08:20 - 08:40am: A Framework for Complex Adaptive Systems
Eunice E. Santos*, Donghang Guo*, Eugene Santos, Jr.**,
Qunhua Zhao**, and Ankit Singha**
*Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, VA, USA
**Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, USA

08:40 - 09:00am: A Tuple Space Web Service for Distributed Programming
G. C. Wells
Rhodes University, South Africa

09:00 - 09:20am: A Steering and Visualization Toolkit for Distributed Applications
Cara Stein, Daniel Bennett, Paul A. Farrell, and Arden Ruttan
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

09:20 - 09:40am: MYMPI - MPI Programming in Python
Timothy H. Kaiser*, Leesa Brieger*, and Sarah Healy**
*San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, California, USA
**University of California, San Diego, California, USA

09:40 - 10:00am: Efficiency of Functional Languages in Client-Server Applications
Maurice Eggen, Gerald Pitts, and Roger Eggen
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA
University of North Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, USA

10:00 - 10:20am: A Chromium Based Viewer for CUMULVS
Dan Bennett, Paul A. Farrell, and Cara Stein
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, USA
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

10:20 - 10:40am: BREAK

10:40 - 11:00am: A Framework for Comparative Performance Analysis of MPI Applications
Edgar Gabriel*, Feng Sheng**, Rainer Keller**, and Michael M. Resch**
*University of Houston, Texas, USA
**University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

11:00 - 11:20am: The Fuce Processor: The Execution Model and The Programming
Methodologies
Satoshi Amamiya, Masaaki Izumi, Takanori Matsuzaki, and
Makoto Amamiya
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

11:20 - 11:40am: Transparent User-Level Checkpointing for the Native Posix Thread
Library for Linux
Michael Rieker, Jason Ansel, and Gene Cooperman
Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm: Multi-Cache Profiling of Parallel Processing Programs Using Simics
Nikrouz Faroughi
Sacramento State University, Sacramento, California, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm: The Concept of Memory-Based Thread Execution by Highly Functional
Memory Controller
Toshiharu Imai and Kiyofumi Tanaka
Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan

12:20 - 01:20pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 01:40pm: IDLI: An Interactive Message Debugger for Parallel Programs Using
LAM-MPI
Hoimonti Basu and Jan B. Pedersen
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm: Compiler Extension of the ASC Language to Support Multiple Instruction
Streams in the MASC Model Using Manager-Worker Paradigm
Wittaya Chantamas, Johnnie W. Baker, and Michael Scherger
Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: Towards a Unified Method of Handling Medium Composition
of Petri Nets
Fuming Wu
Texas A&M International University, Texas, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: Meta-Event Description Language for Realtime CORBA
Serge Midonnet
ESIGETEL, Universite de Marne la Vallee, France

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION B-PDPTA (Refreshments will be available)
June 27 (Tuesday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of PDPTA's schedule.

SESSION 4-PDPTA: GRID AND CLUSTERS; ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS
Chair: Dr. Per Andersen, Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 3:20pm - 5:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

03:20 - 03:40pm: An Integrated Processor Allocation and Job Scheduling Approach to
Workload Management on Computing Grid
Kuo-Chan Huang* and Hsi-Ya Chang**
*Hsing Kuo College of Management, Tainan, Taiwan
**National Applied Research Laboratories, Hsinchu, Taiwan

03:40 - 04:00pm: Coordinated Checkpointing Using Vector Timestamp in Grid Computing
Taichi Jinno, Tokimasa Kamiya, and Motoyasu Nagata
Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan

04:00 - 04:20pm: Simulating the Distributed Ontology Framework in the Semantic Grid
Environment with GridSIM
Andrew Flahive, Wenny Rahayu, Bernady O. Apduhan, and David Taniar
La Trobe University, Australia
Kyushu Sangyo University, Fukuoka, Japan
Monash University, Australia

04:20 - 04:40pm: Analysis of Cluster Interconnection Network Topologies
Sergio N. Zapata, David H. Williams and Patricia A. Nava
University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, Texas, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm: Optimization of Simple Reaction-Diffusion PDE Simulations on a
64-Opteron Linux Cluster
Roman M. Zaritski and Kalpana Pal
Montclair State University, New Jersey, USA

SESSION 5-PDPTA: ALGORITHMS AND IMPLEMENTATION ISSUES
Chairs: Dr. Stephen Blythe
Southern Illinois University - Edwardsville, USA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 05:00pm - 06:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

05:00 - 05:20pm: An Efficient Implementation of Vector Clocks in Dynamic Systems
Xinli Wang, Jean Mayo, Wei Gao, and James Slusser
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm: An Efficient Implementation of Parallel Fox Algorithm
Okon H. Akpan
Bowie State University, Bowie, Maryland, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm: Parallelizing a Collisional Simulation Framework with PLPP
(Pattern Language for Parallel Programming)
Berna L. Massingill and Mark C. Lewis
Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL C
Heterogeneous Parallel and Distributed Computing: Model,
Resource Management, and Robustness
Prof. H. J. Siegel
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL D
Security, Privacy, Computing, and Data Management
Kenneth W. Kousky* and Bon K. Sy**
*CEO, IP3, Inc., USA
**Queens College of the City of New York, New York, USA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

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June 28
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6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 6-PDPTA: RTCOMP - REAL-TIME COMPUTING SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS
Chairs: Prof. K. Balasubramanian
European University of Lefke, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 08:20am - 10:20am
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

08:20 - 08:40am: Integrity Monitoring of Digital Elevation Models for Synthetic Vision
Systems Using Approximate Graph Matching Techniques and X-band
Weather Radar Measurements
Kofi Nyarko, Craig Scott, Jumoke Ladeji-Osias, Otsebele Nare
Morgan State University, USA

08:40 - 09:00am: Flexible QoS management and real-time in OSA+ middleware
F. Picioroaga and U. Brinkschulte
University of Karlsruhe, Germany

09:00 - 09:20am: Towards Automatic Generation of Formal System-scenario Specifications
from Real Time Reactive Systems Requirements Written in NL
O. Ormandjieva and I. Husssain
Concordia University, Canada

09:20 - 09:40am: Real-time Memory Management System for a Java Processor
A. Desai, J. Singh, and R. Veljanovski
Victoria University, Australia

09:40 - 10:00am: Reentrant Statecharts for Concurrent Real-time Systems
Minsoo Ryu, Jimin Kim, and Ji Chan Maeng
Hanyang University, Korea

10:00 - 10:20am: A High Performance Flash ADC with Programmable Word-Length
K. Balasubramanian
European University of Lefke, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

10:20 - 10:40am: BREAK

SESSION 7-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with 8-PDPTA)
NOVEL ALGORITHMS and METHODOLOGIES
Chairs: TBA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 10:40am - 12:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

10:40 - 11:00am: Modelling Restricted Processor Sharing
Feng Zhang and Lester Lipsky
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

11:00 - 11:20am: Leader Election Algorithm in Hypercubes with the Presence
of One Link Failure
Naim M. Ajlouni and Refai Mohd
Amman Arab University for Graduate Studies, Amman, Jordan

11:20 - 11:40am: An Efficient Parallel Algorithm for Building the Separating Tree
Yijie Han
University of Missouri at Kansas City, Missouri, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm: A Numerical Method Computing Performance of Call Admission Control
Under a Mobility Model
Kyungsup Kim and Sang-ha Kim
Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea

12:00 - 12:20pm: Diagonalization in Parallel Space
Kenneth Sundberg, Dan Watson, and David Farrelly
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA

12:20 - 01:20pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

SESSION 8-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with one of 7-PDPTA and 9-PDPTA)
SCHEDULING ALGORITHMS
Chairs: Aniruddha Desai
Victoria University, Victoria, Australia
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 11:20am - 02:40pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room A)

11:20 - 11:40am: A Lower Bound for Power-Aware Task Scheduling on Multiprocessor
Computers
Keqin Li
State University of New York, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm: Distributed Scheduling for the Sombrero Single Address Space
Distributed Operating System
Donald S. Miller, Alan C. Skousen, and Milind Patil
Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm: A Performance-Efficient Task Duplication-Based Scheduling Algorithm
for Heterogeneous Computing
Yang-Ping Cheng, Jiun-Hung Ding, Shih-Shiang Lo, and Yeh-Ching Chung
National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan

12:20 - 01:20pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 01:40pm: Using the Greedy Approach to Schedule Jobs in a Multi-Cluster System
John Ngubiri and Mario van Vliet
Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

01:40 - 02:00pm: Disk Scheduling Proposal for an In-Band Bandwidth
Virtualization Schema
J. Fernandez, J. Carretero, F. Garcia-Carballeira, A. Calderon and
J. D. Garcia
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Leganes, Madrid, Spain

02:00 - 02:20pm: A Task Duplication Based Scheduling Algorithm for Avoiding Useless
Duplication
Koichi Asakura, Bing Shao, and Toyohide Watanabe
Nagoya University, Japan

02:20 - 02:40pm: A Distributed Optimal Scheduler Without ILP Overhead
Stephen Blythe
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, USA

SESSION 9-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with one of 8-PDPTA and 10-PDPTA)
FAULT-TOLERANCE AND ERROR RECOVERY + RELATED ISSUES
Chairs: TBA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 01:20pm - 04:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

01:20 - 01:40pm: On Analytic Bounds of Regular and Irregular Fault-Tolerant
Multi-Stage Interconnection Networks
Nitin
Jaypee University of Information Technology, India

01:40 - 02:00pm: Facing up to the Inevitable: Intelligent Error Recovery in
Massively Parallel Processing in Memory Architectures
James Kramer, Matthias Scheutz, Jay Brockman, and Peter Kogge
University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: A High Performance Non-blocking Checkpointing / Recovery Algorithm For
Ring Networks
B. Gupta, N. Mogharreban, S. Rahimi, and A. Vemuri
Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: Fault Tolerant Grid Migration Using Network Storage
Kodai Kagawa, Kazuya Yamada, Tokimasa Kamiya, and Motoyasu Nagata
Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION C-PDPTA (Refreshments will be available)
June 28 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of PDPTA's schedule.

SESSION 9-PDPTA: Continued - (CONCURRENT SESSION with one of 8-PDPTA and 10-PDPTA)
FAULT-TOLERANCE AND ERROR RECOVERY + RELATED ISSUES
Chairs: TBA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 01:20pm - 04:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

03:20 - 03:40pm: Building of a Fault-Tolerant CORBA Infrastructure within
the Context of Embedded orb and the CAN Bus
Tarek Guesmi, Mohamed Mazozi, and Houria Rezig
Laboratoire SYSCOM, Tunis, Tunisia

03:40 - 04:00pm: Hamiltonian Paths and Cycles in Faulty Burnt Pancake Graphs
K. Kaneko
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

SESSION 10-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with one of 9-PDPTA and 11-PDPTA)
APPLICATIONS
Chair: Dr. Ping-Tsai Chung
Long Island University, New York, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 03:20pm - 06:00pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room A)

03:20 - 03:40pm: USDA UV-B Monitoring System: An Application of Centralized Architecture
Xinli Wang, Wei Gao, James Slusser, Gwen Scott, Becky Olson,
Bill Durham, Roger Tree, and George Janson
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm: Parallel Algorithm for Filamentation of High-Power Super-Short
Laser Pulses
Svyatoslav Shlenov, Alexei Bezborodov, and Andrei Smirnov
M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
West Virginia University, Virginia, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm: Scientific Applications on the Massively Parallel BG/L Machine
K. Antypas, A. C. Calder, A. Dubey, R. Fisher, M. K. Ganapathy,
J. B. Gallagher, L. B. Reid, K. Riley, D. Sheeler, and N. Taylor
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm: Strategies for Generating Subtransactions of an Independent
Transaction
Hamidah Ibrahim
Universiti Putra Malaysia, Serdang, Malaysia

04:40 - 05:00pm: A Highly Scalable Simulation Model for Atomistic Calculation of
Thermal Properties of Silicon
Lin Sun, Chinh Le, Faisal Saied, and Jayathi Y. Murthy
Purdue University, West Lafayete, Indiana, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm: Querying Nested Historical Relations in Heterogeneous
Databases Environment
Ping-Tsai Chung* and Hisn-Hua Hsiao**
*Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, USA
**American Express Corp, Information Technology, New York, USA

05:20 - 05:40pm: Parallel Simulation of Atmospheric Gas Dispersion
S. S. Beauchemin*, Q. Brandon, M. Kotb, H. O. Hamshari, and
M. A. Bauer
The University of Western Ontario, Canada

05:40 - 06:00pm: Process of Efficiently Parallelizing a Protein Structure
Determination Algorithm
Michael Bryson, Xijiang Miao, and Homayoun Valafar
University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA

SESSION 11-PDPTA: (CONCURRENT SESSION with 10-PDPTA)
INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS AND THEIR DESIGN ISSUES
Chairs: Prof. Yefim Dinitz and Maria Artishchev-Zapolotsky; Israel)
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 04:00pm - 06:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

04:00 - 04:20pm: On Permuting Ability of a 2D Torus Under XY Routing
Gennady Veselovsky
Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand

04:20 - 04:40pm: Routing Problems in Incomplete Rotator Graphs
Keiichi Kaneko
Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Tokyo, Japan

04:40 - 05:00pm: Notes on Channel Routing with Knock-Knees
Maria Artishchev-Zapolotsky
Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

05:00 - 05:20pm: Impact of Layered Buses on Scaling-Simulation of Reconfigurable
Meshes
Susumu Matsumae
Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Tottori, Japan

05:20 - 05:40pm: An Anonymous Self-Stabilizing Algorithm For 1-Maximal Matching
in Trees
Wayne Goddard**, Stephen T. Hedetniemi**, and Zhengnan Shi*
*State University of New York Institute of Technology, New York, USA
**Clemson University, North Carolina, USA

05:40 - 06:00pm: Energy-Efficient Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks Based on
Data Reduction
Vasu Jolly, Naoto Kimura, and Shahram Latifi
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL E
Java Cryptography
Prof. Ray Kresman
Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL F
Developing Enterprise Web Services and Applications
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

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June 29
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6:30a - 12:01p: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 12-PDPTA: HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING I/O ARCHITECTURES AND SYSTEMS - HPCIOAS
Chair: Prof. Steve C. Chiu, USA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 08:20am - 10:20am
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

08:20 - 08:40am: Using Grid Computing for Distributed Software Testing
Yaohang Li and Tao Dong
North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA

08:40 - 09:00am: Optimization of Checkpointing-Related I/O for High-Performance
Parallel and Distributed Computing
Rajagopal Subramaniyan, Scott Studham, and Eric Grobelny
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, USA
Oak Ridge National Laboratory, TN, USA

09:00 - 09:20am: High Performance Computing and I/O Architectures for Database and
Knowledge Discovery: The System Design Perspective
Richard Lundeen and Steve C. Chiu
Idaho State University, Idaho, USA

09:20 - 09:40am: Scenario-Based Design Methods for the Development of Pen-Based
Software User Interface
Danli Wang*, Guozhong Dai*, Hongan Wang*, and Steve C. Chiu**
*Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, P. R. China
**Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA

09:40 - 10:00am: RAID0.5: Active Data Replication for Low Cost Disk Array
Data Protection
John A. Chandy
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, USA

10:00 - 10:20am: Beowulf Cluster Design for Physics Simulations: Balancing
Current Needs with Future Possibilities
Brian Oborn
Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, USA

10:20 - 10:40am: BREAK

SESSION 13-PDPTA: NOVEL ALGORITHMS and METHODOLOGIES
Chairs: TBA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 10:40am - 12:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

10:40 - 11:00am: Path Planning for Altruistically Negotiating Systems: The
Near-Sighted Tarzan Algorithm
Arthur W. Mahoney and Daniel W. Watson
Utah State University, Logan, Utah, USA

11:00 - 11:20am: Domain Decomposition Method for Parabolic Problems
Younbae Jun** and Tsun-Zee Mai*
*University of Alabama, Alabama, USA
**University of West Alabama, Alabama, USA

11:20 - 11:40am: Joint Reliability Importance of k-out-of-n Systems and
Series-parallel Systems
Hsun-Wen Chang and Shyr Jan
Tatung University, Taipei, Taiwan

11:40 - 12:00pm: A Quorum Based (M, H, K)-Resource Allocation Algorithm
Armin Lawi, Kentaro Oda, and Takaichi Yoshida
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

12:00 - 12:20pm: Convergence of Time Decay for Event Weights
Sharon Simmons and Dennis Edwards
University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida, USA

12:20 - 01:20pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

SESSION 14-PDPTA: I: COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND ALGORITHMS + P2P
Chairs: Dr. John A. Chandy* and Dr. Houssain Kettani**
*University of Connecticut, USA
**Jackson State University, USA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 01:20pm - 02:40pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

01:20 - 01:40pm: A Java Based Architecture of P2P-Grid Middleware
B. Hudzia, L. McDermott, T. N. Ellahi, and T. Kechadi
University College Dublin, Ireland

01:40 - 02:00pm: A Scalable Search Algorithm for Unstructured Peer-to-Peer Networks
Amit Gud, Masaaki Mizuno, and Daniel Andresen
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: Key Establishment Protocol for Computation-Limited Devices
Zhan Liu and Mi Lu
Texas A & M University, College Station, Texas, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: Enhancements to the DARPA Communicator Architecture
Theban Stanley, Julie Baca, Matt Elliott, and Joseph Picone
Mississippi State University, Mississippi, USA

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION D-PDPTA (Refreshments will be available)
June 29 (Thursday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of PDPTA's schedule.

SESSION 15-PDPTA: II: COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS AND ALGORITHMS + P2P
Chairs: Dr. Houssain Kettani, Jackson State University, USA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 03:20pm - 05:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 5)

03:20 - 03:40pm: Maintaining Update Consistency in Replicated Peer-to-Peer Systems
Minyoung Choi and Haengrae Cho
Yeungnam University, Korea

03:40 - 04:00pm: Performance Analysis of Network Storage Manager System Using DAFS
over Infiniband
Omar Aldaoud, Houssain Kettani, Krishnapriya Guduru and
Qutaibah Malluhi
Jackson State University, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm: Reducing Data Transfer Time in User-Level Network Protocols
Chulho Won
University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm: A Method for Updating Location-Based Information on Ad-hoc Network
Yoji Ishii, Koichi Asakura, and Toyohide Watanabe
Nagoya University, Japan

04:40 - 05:00pm: Average Distances of Pyramid Networks
Hsien-Jone Hsieh and Dyi-Rong Duh
National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

05:00 - 05:20pm: FREE SLOT

05:20 - 05:40pm: FREE SLOT

05:40 - 06:00pm: FREE SLOT

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DISCUSSION SESSION A-PDPTA
June 26 (Monday), 2006
RRR/SRP/PST Papers
1:10 - 1:40pm
(LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION A-PDPTA:

O. Exponential Scarcity: Metric for Fair Resource Distribution
Balazs Goldschmidt and Zoltan Laszlo
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
O. A Mobile Agent Based Synchronization For Distributed Testing
Mohammed Benattou
Institut d'Ingenierie Informatique, France
O. Probabilistic Physical Modeling on Distributed Computing Systems
Andrei Smirnov, Steven Rowan, and James McCormick
West Virginia University, USA
O. A Fast And Efficient Non-blocking Coordinated Checkpointing Approach
For Distributed Systems
B. Gupta, S. Rahimi, and R. Bhupathi
Southern Illinois University, Illinois, USA
O. A P2P Broadcasting Scheme for Video on Demand Services
Ey Suk Jung, Chi Hoon Lee, In Bum Jung, Chang Yeol Choi, and Hwang Kyu Choi
Kangwon National University, Korea
O. An Approximate Model of Radio Wave Propagation for Inter-Vehicles
Communication Simulation Systems
Junya Oishi, Koichi Asakura, and Toyohide Watanabe
Nagoya University, Japan
O. Scalability Solutions for Multimedia Real-time Control Protocol
Omar Essa, Nabaway El-Ramly, Hany Harb, and Khaled Kamel
Menoufia University and Al-Azhar University;
Texas Southern University, USA
O. Epidemic-Style Causal Order Broadcasting Only Using Partial View
ChaYoung Kim** and JinHo Ahn*
*Kyonggi University, Korea
**Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea
O. On Reliability Analysis of Cost-Effective Hybrid Zeta Network: A Fault-Tolerant
Multi-Stage Interconnection Network
Nitin and Ashok Subramanian
Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
O. Specification of Fault-Tolerant Mobile Agent Execution and Its Building Block
Sanaz Rahimi, Shahram Rahimi, and Bidyut Gupta
Southern Illinois University, USA

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DISCUSSION SESSION B-PDPTA
June 27 (Tuesday), 2006
RRR/SRP/PST Papers
2:40 - 3:20pm
(LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION B-PDPTA:

O. DIST.AR.NET DISTtributed ARchiving NETwork
Simon Margulies, Ivan Subotic, and Lukas Rosenthaler
University of Basel, Switzerland
O. Improvement and Implementation of Accurate Array Data-Flow Analysis
Shanshan Wang, Rong-Cai Zhao, and Jian-Min Pang
Zhengzhou Information Science and Technology Institute, P. R. China
O. Responsive Event-Driven Safe and Secure Information Sharing Platform
Hiroshi Ishii, Chee Onn Chow, Masahiro Yamamoto, Sakurako Horie,
and Hiroaki Nishikawa
Tokai University, Japan
University of Tsukuba, Japan
O. A Heuristic Approach for Locating EMS Facilities and Vehicles
Constance A. Lightner** and Jonathan M. Graham*
**Fayetteville State University, North Carolina, USA
*Norfolk State University, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
O. Recovery of Transaction Processing by Group Log and Snapshot
Koji Yamada, Tetsuya Egawa, Yuhsuke Tsujiguchi, and Motoyasu Nagata
Osaka Kyoiku University, Osaka, Japan
O. Embedding Algorithm Between the Macro-star Graph and the Matrixstar Graph
Seo Jung-hyun, Kim Jeong-suk, Sim Hyun, and Lee HyeongOk
Sunchon National University, Korea
Oklahoma State University, Oklahoma, USA
O. The Study of Quasi Monte Carlo in the Parallel Computation of
Invariant Measures
Zizhong J. Wang*, Huiqing H. Yang**, and Jiu Ding***
*Virginia Wesleyan College, Norfolk, Virginia, USA
**Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia, USA
***University of S. Mississippi, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
O. Multicasting in Multi-Plane-Deflection-Routed ATM Switch for B-ISDN
V. S. Tripathi and S. Tiwari
MN NIT, Allahabad, India

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DISCUSSION SESSION C-PDPTA
June 28 (Wednesday), 2006
RRR/SRP/PST Papers
2:40 - 3:20pm
(LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION C-PDPTA:

O. Reducing the Setup Time of a One-step FDTD Method
Dmitry A. Gorodetsky and Philip A. Wilsey
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
O. A Practical Performance Comparison of Parallel Sorting Algorithms
on Homogeneous Network of Workstations
Kalim Qureshi
Kuwait University, Safat, Kuwait
O. Policy Based Approach to Enhance Task Execution Performance of
Mobile Agents
Sarmad Sadik, Arshad Ali, H. Farooq Ahmad, and Hiroki Suguri
NUST Institute of Information Technology, Pakistan
Communication Technologies, Japan
O. An Analysis of Java Distributed Computing Communication Trade-offs:
Performance and Programming
Shahram Rahimi, Michael Wainer, and Delano Lewis
Southern Illinois University, USA
O. A Locked Cache-based Synchronization Protocol for CMP
Ihab Hossam, Khaled El-Ayat, and Muhamed Mudawar
American University Cairo, Egypt
O. Per-Thread Batch Queues For Multithreaded Programs
Tri Nguyen and Robert Chun
San Jose State University, California, USA
O. A Cluster Implementation for the Parallel Programming Language SequenceL
Per Andersen, Daniel Cooke, Nelson Rushton, and Julian Russbach
Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
O. Distributed Shared Memory Consistency Object-Based Model
Abdelfatah Aref Yahya and Rana Mohammad Idrees Bader
Alzaytoonah Private University of Jordan, Ammanm, Jordan
O. A Development of Methodology Services Processes
Whe Dar Lin
The Overseas Chinese Institute of Tech., Taiwan
O. Topology-Aware Parallel Molecular Dynamics Simulation Algorithm
Hideaki Kikuchi, Bijaya B. Karki, and Subhash Saini
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
NASA Ames Research Center, USA
O. Re-Evaluate Search-Based Parallel Job Scheduler
Sangsuree Vasupongayya
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA
O. Building a Peer to Peer Message Passing Environment by Utilizing
Reflection in .NET
Behzad Parviz and Kamyar Miremadi
California State University, Los Angeles, California, USA
O. Multithreaded Collision Detection in Java
Mark C. Lewis and Berna L. Massingill
Trinity University San Antonio, Texas, USA
O. Scheduling Independent Tasks on Heterogeneous Parallel Computing
Environments Under the Unidirectional One-Port Model
Fukuhito Ooshita, Susumu Matsumae, and Toshimitsu Masuzawa
Osaka University, Japan
Tottori University of Environmental Studies, Japan

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DISCUSSION SESSION D-PDPTA
June 29 (Thursday), 2006
RRR/SRP/PST Papers
2:40 - 3:20pm
(LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION D-PDPTA:

O. Reducing Scheduling Cost in List Scheduling Algorithms
Sharanjeet Singh*, Kanwaljit Singh*, and Navpreet Singh**
*GNDU Regional Campus, Punjab, India
**DSL, Gurgaon, India
O. Dynamic Cluster
Phuong N. Hoang and Robert Chun
San Jose State University, California, USA
O. An Enhanced Cluster Based Routing Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks
Uk-Pyo Han**, Sang-Eon Park*, Seung-Nam Kim**, and Young-Jun Chung**
**Kangwon National University, Chunchon, Korea
*California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, Californiam, USA
O. Parallel Containers - A Tool for Applying Parallel Computing
Applications on Clusters
M. Gan-El and K. A. Hawick
Massey University, Albany, New Zealand
O. An Interactive Traffic Information System
Moses Derkalouisdian and John H. Chang
California State University San Marcos, San Marcos, California, USA
O. Effects of Packet Lossless Recovery Scheme on Buffer Size for
Mobile VoIP Handoff
Yu-Cheng Xiao and Jyh-Ming Huang
Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan
O. Quality Image Transmission Using Cam Framework
S. SatheesBabu and R. Saravanan
P.S.N.A. College of Engineering & Technology, India
O. Optimization Construction of Region Automaton
Junyan Qian
Guilin University of Electronic Technology, P. R. China
O. A Challenge: How Do You Build a Distributed Universal
Patient Record?
Michael R. McGuire
Universal Patient Record Forum, California, USA
O. Comments on Integer Sorting on Sum-CRCW
Hazem M. Bahig
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
O. Semantics Based Web Services Discovery
Shou-jian Yu and Feng He
Donghua University, P. R. China
O. Parallel Greedy Adaptive Search Algorithm for Steiner Tree Problem
Rashid Bin Muhammad
Kent State University Kent, Ohio, USA

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GCA'06 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The 2006 International Conference on
Grid Computing & Applications

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006

Note: There are a number of other sessions (not listed as part of GCA'06
schedule) that are of significant interest to GCA conference
participants (sessions belonging to other joint conferences in
this event.) Therefore, you are encouraged to also check the
schedules for other joint conferences. In particular, some sessions
in PDPTA'06, SAM'06, ICOMP'06, SWWS'06, FECS'06, and CIC'06, discuss
topics that are within the scope of GCA; these have been scheduled
so that GCA attendees can also participate in them.

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June 25
===================================================================

03:00 - 09:00pm: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby; 1-5)

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June 26
===================================================================

6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am: WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am: Keynote Lecture 2:
The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
Dr. Chris Rowen
President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:40pm: Lunch (On Your Own)

SESSION 1-GCA: GRID COMPUTING SERVICES AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Chair: TBA
June 26, 2006 (Monday); 01:40pm - 03:20pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room D)

01:40 - 02:00pm: Datagrid Authentication via GSI Certificates Within a
Very Large Global File System
Phil Andrews, Christopher Jordan, and Patricia Kovatch
San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: A Distributed Grid Resource Discovery and Management
Protocol and Its Deployment Environments
Daniel Lacks and Taskin Kocak
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: A New Variation of Chord with Novel Improvement on Lookup
Locality
Jie Wang and Zhijun Yu
University of Massachusetts Lowell, Massachusetts, USA

02:40 - 03:00pm: Grid Policy Administrator with MDP-Based Resource
Management Scheme
Sang-Il Lee, Young-Joo Han, Hyewon Song, and Chan-Hyun Youn
Information and Communications University, Korea

03:00 - 03:20pm: Leveraging the Grid for the Autonomic Management of Complex
Infrastructures
Silvio Salza*, Yuri Di Carlo**, Flavio Lombardi**, and
Roberto Puccinelli**
*Universita di Roma La Sapienza, Italy
**Sistemi Informativi - CNR, Italy

03:20 - 03:40pm: BREAK

SESSION 2-GCA: GRID COMPUTING APPLICATIONS
Chair: TBA
June 26, 2006 (Monday); 03:40pm - 04:40pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room D)

03:40 - 04:00pm: Service-Based Resource Brokering for Grid-based Data Mining
Valentin Kravtsov, Thomas Niessen, Vlado Stankovski,
and Assaf Schuster
Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Fraunhofer Institute for Autonomous intelligent Systems, Germany
University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

04:00 - 04:20pm: Distributed Data Repository Supporting Ad-Hoc Collaborations
Tomasz Haupt, Anand Kalyanasundaram, and Igor Zhuk
Mississippi State University, USA

04:20 - 04:40pm: Teragrid's Tools for Massive Data Movement
Anthony Vu, Martin W. Margo, Patricia Kovatch, Christopher Jordan,
Richard L. Moore, and William Allcock
University of California, San Diego, California, USA
Argonne National Laboratory, USA

04:40 - 06:00pm: BREAK

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
Dr. H. Keith Edwards
University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
Dr. M. Deriche
KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)

09:00 - 11:00pm: CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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June 27
===================================================================

6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:20a - 02:40p: Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
are of significant interest to GCA conference participants
(sessions belonging to other joint conferences in this event.)
During this period, you are encouraged to participate in
sessions belonging to PDPTA'06, SAM'06, ICOMP'06, SWWS'06,
FECS'06, or CIC'06.

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION A-GCA (Refreshments will be available)
June 27 (Tuesday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

O. Federated Global Identity Management: Research Agenda and
Outcomes
Jawed Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Wolfgang Orth,
Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, and Gregor Pipan
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany
Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center, Poland
University of Helsinki, Finland; XLAB, Slovenia
O. Federated Global Identity Management: Towards a Framework
Jawed Siddiqi, Babak Akhgar, Mehrdad Naderi, Wolfgang Orth,
Norbert Meyer, Miika Tuisku, and Gregor Pipan
Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology, Germany
Poznan Supercomputing & Networking Center, Poland
University of Helsinki, Finland; XLAB, Slovenia
O. Toward Design of a E-Learning Platform in Grid Environments
Kuan-Ching Li, Chuan-Ko Tsai, Yin-Te Tsai, and Hsiao-Hsi Wang
Providence University, Taiwan
O. A Data Replication Strategy to Increase Data Availability
in Data Grids
Ming Lei and Susan V. Vrbsky
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA
O. CoDevFrame: An Event-Driven Grid Oriented Cooperative Software
Development System
Bo Liu and Yu Qi De
South China University of Technology, GuangZhou, P. R. China
South China Normal University, GuangZhou, P. R. China
O. Utilizing Jini Features to Implement a Multiagent Framework for
Performance-based Resource Allocation in Grid Environment
Sarbani Roy and Nandini Mukherjee
Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
O. A Grid Web Portal for Aerospace
Sang Boem Lim, Joobum Kim, Nam Gyu Kim, June H. Lee, Chongam Kim,
and Yoonhee Kim
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI), Korea
Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Sookmyung Women's University, Seoul, Republic of Korea
O. Pervasive Access To The Data Grid
Sunirmal Khatua, Subhasis Dasgupta, and Nandini Mukherjee
Jadavpur University, India
O. A Solution to the Information Retrieval Problem in Dynamic
Grid Task Assignment Using the Force Field Model
Edscott Wilson Garcia* and Guillermo Morales-Luna**
*Institituto Mexicano del Petroleo, Mexico
**CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico
O. G-Commerce Economy-Based Resource Allocation in the
Computational Grid
Chaoqin Lei, Weidong Kou, Weihong Fu, and Kai Fan
Xidian University, P. R. China

SESSION 3-GCA: GRID COMPUTING + DISTRIBUTED ARCHITECTURES AND ALGORITHMS
Chair: TBA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 03:20pm - 05:40pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room C)

03:20 - 03:40pm: UWAgents: A Mobile Agent System Optimized for Grid Computing
Munehiro Fukuda and Duncan Smith
University of Washington, Bothell, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm: The Design of a Grid-Enabled Information Integration System
Based on Mediator/wrapper Architectures
Jihwan Song, Sanghyun Yoo, Chang-Sup Park, Dong-Hoon Choi,
and Yoon-Joon Lee
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea
Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, Korea
University of Suwon, Korea

04:00 - 04:20pm: Harvesting Idle Windows CPU Cycles for Grid Computing
Rasmus Andersen and Brian Vinter
University of Copenhagen, Denmark

04:20 - 04:40pm: Gridlite: An Infrastructure for Provisioning and Managing Grid
Services in Resource Constrained Devices
Xiang Song* and Raj Kumar**
*Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
**Hewlett-Packard Company, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm: Quality of Service Support for Grid Environments
Vijay Velusamy and Tony Skjellum
University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm: Design of Grid Computing Environment for Operative
Weather Nowcasting
Giovanni Aloisio, Dario Conte, Gian Paolo Marra, Franco Prodi,
and Gianvito Quarta
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences & Climate of the Italian National
Research Council, Italy
Center for Advanced Computational Technologies/ISUFI, University of
Lecce, Italy

05:20 - 05:40pm: SensorML for Grid Sensor Networks
Giovanni Aloisio, Dario Conte, Cosimo Elefante, Italo Epicoco,
Gian Paolo Marra, Giangiuseppe Mastrantonio, and Gianvito Quarta
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate of the Italian National
Research Council, Italy
Center for Advanced Computational Technologies/ISUFI, University of
Lecce, Italy

SESSION 4-GCA: GRID COMPUTING SCHEDULING SYSTEMS
Chair: TBA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 05:40pm - 06:40pm
(LOCATION: Conference Room C)

05:40 - 06:00pm: Optimizing Grid Scheduling Based on Local Cluster Scheduling
Policies and Resource Availability
Tummalapalli Sudhamsh Reddy, David Levine, Farhad Kamangar and
Nirmal Ranganathan
University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA

06:00 - 06:20pm: Heuristic Scheduling and Process Migration on the Grid
Yusuke Inoue, Takahiro Koita, Akira Fukuda, and Kenya Sato
Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan

06:20 - 06:40pm: CSF4: A WSRF Compliant Meta-Scheduler
Wei Xiaohui, Ding Zhaohui, Yuan Shutao, Hou Chang, and
Li Huizhen
Jilin University, P. R. China
Platform Computing, Canada

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

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June 28
===================================================================

6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:20a - 05:40p: Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
are of significant interest to GCA conference participants
(sessions belonging to other joint conferences in this event.)
During this period, you are encouraged to participate in
sessions belonging to PDPTA'06, SAM'06, ICOMP'06, SWWS'06,
FECS'06, or CIC'06.

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL E
Java Cryptography
Prof. Ray Kresman
Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL F
Developing Enterprise Web Services and Applications
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

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June 29
===================================================================

6:30a - 12:01p: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:20a - 05:20p: Note: There are a number of sessions (not listed here) that
are of significant interest to GCA conference participants
(sessions belonging to other joint conferences in this event.)
During this period, you are encouraged to participate in
sessions belonging to PDPTA'06, SAM'06, ICOMP'06, or CIC'06.

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SERP'06 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

The 2006 International Conference on
Software Engineering Research & Practice

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, June 26-29, 2006

Note: There are a number of other sessions (not listed as part of
SERP'06 schedule) that are of significant interest to SERP
conference participants (sessions belonging to other joint
conferences in this event.) Therefore, you are encouraged to
also check the schedules for other joint conferences. In particular,
some sessions in PLC'06, PDPTA'06, SWWS'06, FECS'06, and EEE'06,
discuss topics that are within the scope of SERP; these have been
scheduled so that SERP attendees can also participate in them.

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June 25
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03:00 - 09:00pm: REGISTRATION (Second Floor, Conference Lobby; 1-5)

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June 26
===================================================================

6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

08:30 - 08:45am: WORLDCOMP'06 Opening Remarks
Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia (General Chair & Coordinator)
University of Georgia, Georgia, USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

09:50 - 10:50am: Keynote Lecture 2:
The Reinvention of the Microprocessor
Dr. Chris Rowen
President and CEO, Tensilica, Inc., USA
(LOCATION: Lance Burton Theater)

12:20 - 01:10pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:10 - 01:40pm: DISCUSSION SESSION A-SERP (Refreshments will be available)
June 26 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of SERP's schedule.

01:40 - 02:40pm: Opening and SERP'06 Keynote Lecture:
Composition by Interaction
Prof. Farhad Arbab, CWI and Leiden University, The Netherlands
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

02:40 - 03:00pm: FREE SLOT

03:00 - 03:20pm: BREAK

SESSION 1-SERP: SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE + REUSE
Chair: Dr. Xingye Cherry Lei, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Washington, USA
June 26, 2006 (Monday); 3:20pm - 5:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

03:20 - 03:40pm: Selecting Effective Test Messages
Len Gebase, Roch Bertucat, Robert Snelick
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

03:40 - 04:00pm: Generation of Test Scenarios from Use Cases
Stephane S. Some
University of Ottawa, Canada

04:00 - 04:20pm: Restricted Adaptive Random Testing by Random Partitioning
Johannes Mayer
University of Ulm, Germany

04:20 - 04:40pm: Dynamically Generating Conformance Tests for Messaging Systems
Robert Snelick, Len Gebase, and Sydney Henrard
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA

04:40 - 05:00pm: Adapting Structural Testing to Functional Programming
Manfred Widera
FernUniversit, Germany

05:00 - 05:20pm: Test-Bed for Verification and Validation Activities in Developing
an Operations Support System
Dae-Woo Kim, Hyun-Min Lim, and Sang-Gon Lee
Network Technology Lab., R&D Group Korea Telecom, Korea

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL A
Alice: Using Animation to Teach Introductory Programming
Dr. H. Keith Edwards
University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 7)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL B
An Introduction to Biometric Recognition Systems
Dr. M. Deriche
KFUPM, Saudi Arabia
June 26, 2006 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 8)

09:00 - 11:00pm: CONFERENCE RECEPTION DINNER - June 26 (Monday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Rooms 1-5)

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June 27
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6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 2-SERP: WORKSHOP ON SYSTEM/SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURES, IWSSA
Chairs: Dr. Lawrence Chung, USA and Dr. Nary Subramanian, USA)
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 8:00am - 1:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

08:00 - 08:20am: Workshop Opening Remarks
Drs. Lawrence Chung and Nary Subramanian, USA

08:20 - 08:40am: Ontology-Driven Middleware for Next-Generation Train Backbones
Stijn Verstichel, Sofie Van Hoecke, Steven Van den Berghe,
Filip De Turck, Frederik Vermeulen, and Piet Demeester
Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

08:40 - 09:00am: System Modeling for Development of Groupware Applications
Manuel Noguera, Miguel Gonzalez, Jose L. Garrido,
M. Visitacion Hurtado, and Maria L. Rodriguez
University of Granada, Granada, Spain

09:00 - 09:20am: Organization Modelling to Support Access Control for
Collaborative Systems
F. L. Gutierrez Vela*, J. L. Isla Montes, P. Paderewski Rodriguez,
and M. Sanchez Roman
University of Granada, Granada, Spain

09:20 - 09:40am: An NFR-Based Framework for Aligning Software Architectures
with System Architectures
Nary Subramanian and Lawrence Chung
University of Texas at Tyler, Texas, USA

09:40 - 10:00am: Architecture-Centric Program Transformation for Distributed Systems
Chung-Horng Lung, Jianning Liu, Xiaoli Ling, and Dan Jiang
Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

10:00 - 10:20am: BREAK

10:20 - 10:40am: Component-Aware System Architecting: A Software Interoperability
Perspective
Lawrence Chung, Weimin Ma, and Kendra Cooper
University of Texas at Dallas, Texas, USA

10:40 - 11:00am: From Enterprise Architectures to Software Architectures
Using Requirements Engineering
Matthias Galster, Armin Eberlein, and Mahmood Moussavi
University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

11:00 - 11:20am: Helping to Meet the Security Needs of Enterprises: Using
FDAF to Build RBAC Into Software Architectures
Lirong Dai and Kendra Cooper
Seattle University, Seattle, Washington, USA

11:20 - 11:40am: Modeling of Evolution to Secure Application System: From
Requirements Model to Software Architecture
Michael Shin
Texas Tech University, Texas, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm: An Enterprise Architecture Process Model
Francois Coallier and Roger Champagne
Ecole de Technologie Superieure, Montreal, Canada

12:00 - 12:40pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

12:40 - 01:00pm: A Model of Access Control for Data Materials Based on Ambient Calculus
Masaki Murakami
Okayama University, Japan

01:00 - 01:20pm: Workshop Closing Remarks
Drs. Lawrence Chung and Nary Subramanian, USA

SESSION 3-SERP: UML, MDA AND RELATED ISSUES
Chair: Subhas C. Misra, Super Net Solutions, Scarborough, Canada
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 1:20pm - 2:40pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

01:20 - 01:40pm: FREE SLOT

01:40 - 02:00pm: On the Effectiveness of Source Code Transformations for
Binary Obfuscation
Matias Madou*, Bertrand Anckaert*, Bruno De Bus*, Koen De Bosschere*,
Jan Cappaert**, and Bart Preneel**
*Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium
**Katholieke Universiteit of Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium

02:00 - 02:20pm: Model Driven Development with Interactive Use Cases and UML Models
Paul Nguyen and Robert Chun
San Jose State University, California, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: FREE SLOT

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION B-SERP (Refreshments will be available)
June 27 (Tuesday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of SERP's schedule.

SESSION 4-SERP: DISTRIBUTED AND REAL-TIME SYSTEMS
Chairs: Dr. Xingye Cherry Lei, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Washington, USA
and Subhas C. Misra, Super Net Solutions, Scarborough, Canada
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 3:20pm - 4:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

03:20 - 03:40pm: Comparison of Object Oriented Technology Automatic Codes Generating
Tools for Safety Critical Real-time Software
Farahzad Behi and Daniel Penny III
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm: Application Platforms for Embedded Systems: Suitability of J2ME
and .NET Compact Framework
Koen Victor, Yves Vandewoude, Yolande Berbers
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

04:00 - 04:20pm: Practical Technologies for Implementing Distributed Applications as
Evolvable Software Systems (ESS)
Kendall O. Conrad and Vincent A. Schmidt
Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, USA

SESSION 5-SERP: SOFTWARE METRICS, CONFIGURATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Chair: Dr. Xingye Cherry Lei, Pacific Northwest National Lab, Washington, USA
June 27, 2006 (Tuesday); 4:20pm - 6:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

04:20 - 04:40pm: Virus Removal Cost (VRC) Metric
Kuangnan Chang and Bobby C. Adkins
Eastern Kentucky University, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm: Towards an Extendable Software System for Information Integration
Paul Whitney, Christian Posse, and Xingye Lei
Pacific Northwest National Lab, Richland, Washington, USA

05:00 - 05:20pm: A Workbench for Learning Enterprise Patterns
Paulo Saousa
Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

05:20 - 05:40pm: Web Metrics: The Way of Improvement of Quality of Non
Web-Based Systems
Shazia Arshad, Muhammad Shoaib, and Abad Shah
University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, Pakistan

05:40 - 06:00pm: FREE SLOT

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

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June 28
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6:30am - 5:00pm: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 6-SERP: SOFTWARE TESTING AND QUALITY ASSURANCE + REUSE
Chair: Dr. George Dimitoglou
Hood College, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 8:00am - 11:20am
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

08:00 - 08:20am: A Framework for Automatic Testing of Industrial Controller Code
Dag Kristiansen and Karl-Petter Lindegaard
ABB Corporate Research, Norway

08:20 - 08:40am: Agile Test-Based Modeling
Bernhard Rumpe
Technische Universitat Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

08:40 - 09:00am: Statistical Analysis and Enhancement of Random Testing Methods
also Under Constrained Resources
Johannes Mayer and Christoph Schneckenburger
University of Ulm, Germany

09:00 - 09:20am: DP&T Model: The Defect Prevention and Traceability - Driven
Model for Software Engineering
Jay Xiong* and Jonathan Xiong**
*International Software Automation, Inc., and ISA Shanghai, Ltd., P. R. China
**University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

09:20 - 09:40am: DP&T Methodology: The Defect Prevention and Traceability - Driven
Methodology for Software Engineering
Jay Xiong* and Jonathan Xiong**
*International Software Automation, Inc., and ISA Shanghai, Ltd., P. R. China
**University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

09:40 - 10:00am: DP&T System: The Defect Prevention and Traceability - Driven
System for Software Engineering
Jay Xiong* and Jonathan Xiong**
*International Software Automation, Inc., and ISA Shanghai, Ltd., P. R. China
**University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA

10:00 - 10:20am: A Method for Generating a Minimal Functional Set of Test-Cases
for Software-Intensive Systems
Jorg Gericke and Matthias Wiemann
Siemens AG, Germany

10:20 - 10:40am: BREAK

10:40 - 11:00am: Looking at Comparisons of Regression and Analogy-based Software
Project Cost Prediction
Carolyn Mair and Martin Shepperd
Brunel University, UK

11:00 - 11:20am: Reusing Families Design
Virginia C. de Paula
Long Island University - Brooklyn Campus, USA

SESSION 7-SERP: SOFTWARE METHODOLOGIES, PROCESS, AND MODEL ORIENTED DESIGN
Chair: TBA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 11:20am - 12:40pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

11:20 - 11:40am: An Object-Oriented Framework for Predicting Student Competency
Level in an Incoming Class
Suresh Kalathur
Boston University Metropolitan College, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm: An Experience Report of Applying the Personal Software Process
Methodology
Wen-Hsiang Shen, Nien-Lin Hsueh, Peng-Hua Chu
Feng Chia University, Taichung, Taiwan

12:00 - 12:20pm: Automatic Code Generation: Model - Code Semantic Consistency
Andrew J. Kornecki and Sona Johri
Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, USA

12:20 - 12:40pm: SEN State Event Net, Proposal to Enrich the Arsenal of
UML Dynamic Diagram
Bui Minh Duc
Laval University, Quebec, Canada

12:40 - 01:20pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

SESSION 8-SERP: SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT ANALYSIS + LIFECYCLE PROCESS ISSUES
Chair: TBA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 1:20pm - 2:40pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

01:20 - 01:40pm: Requirements Engineering for E-Voting Systems
Kevin Daimi, Katherine Snyder, and Robert James
University of Detroit Mercy, Detroit, Michigan, USA

01:40 - 02:00pm: Automatic Comprehension of Textual User Requirements and
Their Static and Dynamic Modeling
O. Ormandjieva and M. G. Ilieva
Concordia University, Canada

02:00 - 02:20pm: A Multi-Role Collaborative Method and Platform for Developing
Software Requirements
Chin-Yi Tsai and Chua-Huang Huang
Taiwan

02:20 - 02:40pm: Integrating User Centered Design in a Product Development
Lifecycle Process: A Case Study
Karsten Nebe, Lennart Grotzbach, and Ronald Hartwig
University of Paderborn,C-LAB, Paderborn, Germany
Siemens Business Services, Paderborn, Germany

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION C-SERP (Refreshments will be available)
June 28 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of SERP's schedule.

SESSION 9-SERP: COMPONENT ORIENTED SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
Chair: Dr. Weihu Hong, Clayton State University, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 3:20pm - 4:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

03:20 - 03:40pm: Plugin-Based Systems with Self-Organized Presentation
Boto Bako, Andreas Borchert, Norbert Heidenbluth, and Johannes Mayer
University of Ulm, Germany

03:40 - 04:00pm: Algorithms for Optimally Tracing Time Critical Programs
Sergej Alekseev
Siemens AG, Berlin, Germany

04:00 - 04:20pm: Assessment of Component-based Systems with Distributed Object
Technology
Jiang Guo
California State University Los Angeles, USA

SESSION 10-SERP: FORMAL METHODS AND SPECIFICATION LANGUAGES, AND LANGUAGE DESIGN
Chair: Dr. Mayank Dave
National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday); 4:20pm - 6:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

04:20 - 04:40pm: Inspection of Concurrent Systems: Combining Tables, Theorem
Proving and Model Checking
Vera Pantelic, Xiao-Hui Jin, Mark Lawford, and David Parnas
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

04:40 - 05:00pm: On a GUI-Based Editor for Z Specifications and its Applications
Hiroshi Ishikawa
Fukuyama University, Japan

05:00 - 05:20pm: A Formally Verified Geometric Modeling Core
Catherine Dubois* and Jean-Marc Mota**
*CEDRIC, France
**ENSMA, LISI, France

05:20 - 05:40pm: Formal Verification of Automated Negotiation Protocols
George Dimitoglou, Okan Duzyol, and Lawrence N. Owusu
Hood College, Frederick, MD USA

05:40 - 06:00pm: Re-Engineering BLUE Financial System Using Round-Trip Engineering
and JAVA Language Conversion Assistant
Salim Al-Agtash*, Tamer Al-Dwairy**, Adnan Al-Nasan**,
Bruce P. Mull*, Mamdouh Barakat***, and Anas Shqair**
*German Jordanian University, Jordan
**Yarmouk University, Irbid, Jordan
***MBRM - MB Risk Management, London, UK

06:00 - 9:00pm: TWO TUTORIALS (planned)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL E
Java Cryptography
Prof. Ray Kresman
Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 1)

CONFERENCE TUTORIAL F
Developing Enterprise Web Services and Applications
Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee
Chief Executive Officer, Cyndeo LLC, USA
June 28, 2006 (Wednesday)
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 3)

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June 29
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6:30a - 12:01p: Registration (Second Floor, Conference Lobby: 1-5)

SESSION 11-SERP: SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE, DESIGN PATTERNS, AND FRAMEWORKS
Chair: Dr. H. Keith Edwards
University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 8:00am - 11:10am
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

08:00 - 08:20am: EJB Performance Measurement Framework
Denis Gefter and Robert Chun
San Jose State University, California, USA

08:20 - 08:40pm: A Framework for Assessing Data Quality - From a Business
Perspective
Asa Lindstrom, Pia Gustafsson, Cecilia Jagerlind, and Jevgenij Tsoi
Royal Institute of Techology, Stockholm, Sweden

08:40 - 09:00am: Analyzing Communication Patterns in Software Engineering Projects
H. Keith Edwards ,Robert R. Puckett and Art Jolly
University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA

09:00 - 09:20am: A SOA-Based IA Asset Management Architecture Using XML in E-Government
Namho Yoo and Hyeong-Ah Choi
The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA

09:20 - 09:40am: OSGi Service Layer Enhancements
Nico Goeminne, Gregory De Jans, Jan Hollez
Ghent University - IBBT - IMEC, Belgium

09:40 - 10:00am: Using Webservice Choreography and Orchestration Perspectives
to Model and Evaluate B2B Interactions
Andreas Schonberger and Guido Wirtz
Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg, Germany

10:00 - 10:20am: Managing the Evolution of an Enterprise Architecture Using a
MAS-Product-Line Approach
Joaquin Pena, Michael Hinchey, Manuel Resinas, Roy Sterritt,
and James Rash
University of Seville, Spain

10:20 - 10:40am: BREAK

10:40 - 11:00am: Updating Software Architectures: A Style-Based Approach
Dalila Tamzalit, Mourad Oussalah, Olivier Le Goaer, and
Abdelhak-Djamel Seriai
University of Nantes, France

11:00 - 11:20am: Context-Broker Service Architecture for AmI Systems Through
Mobile-Agents and Ontologies
Borja Minano, Isaac Lera, Pere P. Sancho, Carlos Juiz,
and Ramon Puigjaner
University of Balearic Islands, Spain

SESSION 12-SERP: SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE + RELIABILITY MODELS AND RISK ANALYSIS
Chair: Dr. George Dimitoglou
Hood College, USA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 11:20am - 2:20pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

11:20 - 11:40am: An Effort Estimation by UML Points in Early Stage of Software Development
Sang Eun Kim, William Lively, and Dick Simmons
Texas A & M University, Texas, USA

11:40 - 12:00pm: Predicting Error Probability in the Eclipse Project
Raed Shatnawi and Wei Li
University of Alabama in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

12:00 - 12:20pm: Are the Changes Induced by the Defect Reports in the Open
Source Software Maintenance?
Timo Koponen and Heli Lintula
University of Kuopio, Finland

12:20 - 01:20pm: LUNCH (On Your Own)

01:20 - 01:40pm: A Model of Maintainability - Suggestion for Future Research
Mira Kajko-Mattsson, Arie van Deursen, Rupert Reiger,
Gerardo Canfora, Tuomas Ihme, Torsten Engel, Dan Chiorean,
Meir M. Lehman, and Josef Wernke
Stockholm University and Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

01:40 - 02:00pm: Supporting Software Fault Tree Analysis Using a Key Node Metric
D. Needham and S. Jones
United States Naval Academy, USA

02:00 - 02:20pm: Metrics in Risk Determination for Large-Scale Distributed Systems
Maintenance
Maureen Ann Raley and Letha Hughes Etzkorn
University of Alabama in Huntsville, USA

02:20 - 02:40pm: FREE SLOT

02:40 - 03:20pm: DISCUSSION SESSION D-SERP (Refreshments will be available)
June 29 (Thursday)
(LOCATION: Hallways - Meeting Rooms 1-5)
List of papers appears at the end of SERP's schedule.

SESSION 13-SERP: SOFTWARE METRICS, CONFIGURATION AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Chair: Dr. H. Keith Edwards
University of Hawaii - Hilo, USA
June 29, 2006 (Thursday); 3:20pm - 6:00pm
(LOCATION: Meeting Room 4)

03:20 - 03:40pm: Medical Informatics and Medical Databases Approach in Modeling
Healthcare Education System with Unified Modeling Language (UML)
Anil Khatri, Azene Zenebe, and David Anyiwo
Bowie State University, Bowie, MD, USA

03:40 - 04:00pm: Model Transformation Based on Meta Templates
Hongming Liu, Lizhang Qin, Xiaoping Jia, and Adam Steele
DePaul University Chicago, Illinois, USA

04:00 - 04:20pm: Developing Medical Information System with MDA and Web Services
Simone A. B. Melo, Denivaldo Lopes, and Zair Abdelouahab
Brazil

04:20 - 04:40pm: UML Analysis Using State Diagrams
Mohammad N. Alanazi, Jason A. Belt, and David A. Gustafson
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, USA

04:40 - 05:00pm: FREE SLOT

05:00 - 05:20pm: FREE SLOT

05:20 - 05:40pm: FREE SLOT

05:40 - 06:00pm: FREE SLOT

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DISCUSSION SESSION A-SERP
June 26 (Monday), 2006
RRR/SRP/PST Papers
1:10 - 1:40pm
(LOCATION: Hallways/Lobby - Meeting Rooms 1-5)

LIST OF PAPERS IN DISCUSSION SESSION A-SERP: